Tea Time Tales: A Fish and his chips

[Rexas]

you prefer Moore as Bond to Craig?

my word, my word.

Craig isn't a bond for those that like Loaded mag, but is a far more rounded character. more flawed and introspective

Moore might as well have dressed up asa  court jester with a laughter backing track. The worst bond by far

I'd say Craig was probably my favorite, in Casino Royale he managed to seem like he was in total control the whole time, had the arrogant hard man thing down. Just seemed a lot tougher and a lot more violent/ruthless than the others, which is how I always pictured bond.

[Rexas]

For those who know me, they will know that I wont be moaning about running bad

In before you run bad for the first time and start moaning about it!

Honestly I thought Spectre was shit. A complete mess of various storylines which didn't make a great deal of sense and just led from one action sequence into another, and the bit where bond was practically crying for whats his face to not show whats her name her dad dying was so un bond like. The original bond was supposed to win because he was harder and cleverer than everyone else, you compare the bond in Specter to the one in the latest Casino Royale and it's just not the same. The whole ending where he walks away with the girl etc, that's not bond, bond's the bloke who makes jokes while he's getting tortured ffs!

I agree, if it was a standard action movie, you'd walk out thinking youd had your monies worth. want a bit more from 007. not very often hes walked away from the villian and left him alive either. just was a bit of a mix really. get Roger Moore back i say!!

This is supposedly the Bond before he became suave and sophisticated. This is the one with the drink problem, causing more trouble than he resolves.

Craig is closest to Fleming's Bond than probably any other iteration, yes, including David Niven.

Assuming you're right, would this bond have really let his arch enemy life while w walked off into the sunset as it were? Surely he would have killed him? You like the new film Tal?

You're missing out Tikay, some of the films are cracking, Craig isn't one of my top 3 Bonds, but do like him. Maybe I just prefer the slightly more lighthearted approach of Moore or Connery.

Bad read there Vern, very bad read.

I'd not watch a Bond film if you paid me £100.

Horses for courses & all that.

Are you just not into that sort of thing? If it's bond you didn't like but aren't averse to a good spy action film, the earlier Bourne films are worth a watch. Very good imo, Jason Bourne had that everyone's afraid of me thing that Bond always seemed to be missing

[tikay]

For those who know me, they will know that I wont be moaning about running bad

In before you run bad for the first time and start moaning about it!

Honestly I thought Spectre was shit. A complete mess of various storylines which didn't make a great deal of sense and just led from one action sequence into another, and the bit where bond was practically crying for whats his face to not show whats her name her dad dying was so un bond like. The original bond was supposed to win because he was harder and cleverer than everyone else, you compare the bond in Specter to the one in the latest Casino Royale and it's just not the same. The whole ending where he walks away with the girl etc, that's not bond, bond's the bloke who makes jokes while he's getting tortured ffs!

I agree, if it was a standard action movie, you'd walk out thinking youd had your monies worth. want a bit more from 007. not very often hes walked away from the villian and left him alive either. just was a bit of a mix really. get Roger Moore back i say!!

This is supposedly the Bond before he became suave and sophisticated. This is the one with the drink problem, causing more trouble than he resolves.

Craig is closest to Fleming's Bond than probably any other iteration, yes, including David Niven.

Assuming you're right, would this bond have really let his arch enemy life while w walked off into the sunset as it were? Surely he would have killed him? You like the new film Tal?

You're missing out Tikay, some of the films are cracking, Craig isn't one of my top 3 Bonds, but do like him. Maybe I just prefer the slightly more lighthearted approach of Moore or Connery.

Bad read there Vern, very bad read.

I'd not watch a Bond film if you paid me £100.

Horses for courses & all that.

Are you just not into that sort of thing? If it's bond you didn't like but aren't averse to a good spy action film, the earlier Bourne films are worth a watch. Very good imo, Jason Bourne had that everyone's afraid of me thing that Bond always seemed to be missing

Correct.

I'd pay good money to watch a nature documentary, yes, but not Bond or spy sort of stuff. Just not my thing since I qualified as a grown-up.

[Rexas]

For those who know me, they will know that I wont be moaning about running bad

In before you run bad for the first time and start moaning about it!

Honestly I thought Spectre was shit. A complete mess of various storylines which didn't make a great deal of sense and just led from one action sequence into another, and the bit where bond was practically crying for whats his face to not show whats her name her dad dying was so un bond like. The original bond was supposed to win because he was harder and cleverer than everyone else, you compare the bond in Specter to the one in the latest Casino Royale and it's just not the same. The whole ending where he walks away with the girl etc, that's not bond, bond's the bloke who makes jokes while he's getting tortured ffs!

I agree, if it was a standard action movie, you'd walk out thinking youd had your monies worth. want a bit more from 007. not very often hes walked away from the villian and left him alive either. just was a bit of a mix really. get Roger Moore back i say!!

This is supposedly the Bond before he became suave and sophisticated. This is the one with the drink problem, causing more trouble than he resolves.

Craig is closest to Fleming's Bond than probably any other iteration, yes, including David Niven.

Assuming you're right, would this bond have really let his arch enemy life while w walked off into the sunset as it were? Surely he would have killed him? You like the new film Tal?

You're missing out Tikay, some of the films are cracking, Craig isn't one of my top 3 Bonds, but do like him. Maybe I just prefer the slightly more lighthearted approach of Moore or Connery.

Bad read there Vern, very bad read.

I'd not watch a Bond film if you paid me £100.

Horses for courses & all that.

Are you just not into that sort of thing? If it's bond you didn't like but aren't averse to a good spy action film, the earlier Bourne films are worth a watch. Very good imo, Jason Bourne had that everyone's afraid of me thing that Bond always seemed to be missing

Correct.

I'd pay good money to watch a nature documentary, yes, but not Bond or spy sort of stuff. Just not my thing since I qualified as a grown-up.

What would you say your top 5 films are then Tikay?

[Tal]

Lock Stock (nap)
Snatch
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Sound of Music (that's what he tells the fiancée, obviously)


I'm betting the over on 3.5 btw

[verndog158]

For those who know me, they will know that I wont be moaning about running bad

In before you run bad for the first time and start moaning about it!

Honestly I thought Spectre was shit. A complete mess of various storylines which didn't make a great deal of sense and just led from one action sequence into another, and the bit where bond was practically crying for whats his face to not show whats her name her dad dying was so un bond like. The original bond was supposed to win because he was harder and cleverer than everyone else, you compare the bond in Specter to the one in the latest Casino Royale and it's just not the same. The whole ending where he walks away with the girl etc, that's not bond, bond's the bloke who makes jokes while he's getting tortured ffs!

I agree, if it was a standard action movie, you'd walk out thinking youd had your monies worth. want a bit more from 007. not very often hes walked away from the villian and left him alive either. just was a bit of a mix really. get Roger Moore back i say!!

This is supposedly the Bond before he became suave and sophisticated. This is the one with the drink problem, causing more trouble than he resolves.

Craig is closest to Fleming's Bond than probably any other iteration, yes, including David Niven.

Assuming you're right, would this bond have really let his arch enemy life while w walked off into the sunset as it were? Surely he would have killed him? You like the new film Tal?

You're missing out Tikay, some of the films are cracking, Craig isn't one of my top 3 Bonds, but do like him. Maybe I just prefer the slightly more lighthearted approach of Moore or Connery.

Bad read there Vern, very bad read.

I'd not watch a Bond film if you paid me £100.

Horses for courses & all that.

Are you just not into that sort of thing? If it's bond you didn't like but aren't averse to a good spy action film, the earlier Bourne films are worth a watch. Very good imo, Jason Bourne had that everyone's afraid of me thing that Bond always seemed to be missing

Correct.

I'd pay good money to watch a nature documentary, yes, but not Bond or spy sort of stuff. Just not my thing since I qualified as a grown-up.

What would you say your top 5 films are then Tikay?

In no order of preference...

Shawshank
Dead poets society
Usual suspects

Will need more time to think of the other 2!!

Possibles:the green mile, Notting hill, gladiator, the sixth sense. Ahhhh so many!

[hhyftrftdr]

The Godfather
Taxi Driver
Apocalypse Now
Goodfellas
American Beauty

Gotta say I'm with the old man regarding Bond, the whole franchise has never really interested me. The premise of every film is the same, give or take. I appreciate that this goes against the grain, as Bond is somewhat of a national institution on these shores.

[tikay]

Lock Stock (nap)
Snatch
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Sound of Music (that's what he tells the fiancée, obviously)


I'm betting the over on 3.5 btw

Awesome, your bet is a winner, you got 4 out of 5.

 Reservoir Dogs was too scary, had to turn it off when they cut the geezers ear off.

Replace that with The Titchfield Thunderbolt and you get 5/5.

Should add, have not watched a new film for 10 years or more, and have no plans to change that.

[vegaslover]

Casino Royale brought Bond back with a bang. Action sequences far better than anything seen before in Bond.
Since then the stories have just got more ridiculous. How the fk does Q still have a job after being the cause of the computer virus getting uploaded in Skyfall?

Tikay - why have you chosed not to watch any films from the last 10 years?

[sonour]

Casino Royale brought Bond back with a bang. Action sequences far better than anything seen before in Bond.
Since then the stories have just got more ridiculous. How the fk does Q still have a job after being the cause of the computer virus getting uploaded in Skyfall?

Tikay - why have you chosed not to watch any films from the last 10 years?

Tikay doesn't do fiction.

[tikay]

Casino Royale brought Bond back with a bang. Action sequences far better than anything seen before in Bond.
Since then the stories have just got more ridiculous. How the fk does Q still have a job after being the cause of the computer virus getting uploaded in Skyfall?

Tikay - why have you chosed not to watch any films from the last 10 years?

As sonour notes, I don't really do fiction, be it books or films, except for gangster style stuff.

Movies don't do a thing for me either, just not my bag.

As a kid, I got forced to visit the local Odeon or Gaumont to watch Sound of Music, West Side Story, The King & I, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, all that bollox, but since then I doubt I've been to the cinema 5 times in 50 years. Last 2 times was to see Jurassic Park,  (22 years ago) & Made in Dagenham (5 years  ago).

I doubt I'll ever go again. Films just don't interest me. On the flight home from Punta Cana, 12 mind-numbing hours cramped in an aeroplane, with the cabin lights off, so unable to read a book, the In Flight Entertainment included 84 films. I scrolled through all 84 listed, but could not find one that I felt able to watch. I did briefly consider Wolf on Wall Street, which was the last film I watched outside of home, but I saw that on the Vegas flight last year.

I enjoy the gangster stuff though. Godfather, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, Snatch, Lock Stock, those sort of things.

Gill likes to watch films, & kind of wants me to watch them with her, "you'll like it, trust me", I just politely feign interest, & then generally nod off.  

Not being rude like, but the fact that grown ups enjoy stuff like Bond films astonishes me.  I guess that cuts both ways though, folks think I'm odd because I don't like films.

Each to their own, eh?

[vegaslover]

Casino Royale brought Bond back with a bang. Action sequences far better than anything seen before in Bond.
Since then the stories have just got more ridiculous. How the fk does Q still have a job after being the cause of the computer virus getting uploaded in Skyfall?

Tikay - why have you chosed not to watch any films from the last 10 years?

As sonour notes, I don't really do fiction, be it books or films, except for gangster style stuff.

Movies don't do a thing for me either, just not my bag.

As a kid, I got forced to visit the local Odeon or Gaumont to watch Sound of Music, West Side Story, The King & I, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, all that bollox, but since then I doubt I've been to the cinema 5 times in 50 years. Last 2 times was to see Jurassic Park,  (22 years ago) & Made in Dagenham (5 years  ago).

I doubt I'll ever go again. Films just don't interest me. On the flight home from Punta Cana, 12 mind-numbing hours cramped in an aeroplane, with the cabin lights off, so unable to read a book, the In Flight Entertainment included 84 films. I scrolled through all 84 listed, but could not find one that I felt able to watch. I did briefly consider Wolf on Wall Street, which was the last film I watched outside of home, but I saw that on the Vegas flight last year.

I enjoy the gangster stuff though. Godfather, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, Snatch, Lock Stock, those sort of things.

Gill likes to watch films, & kind of wants me to watch them with her, "you'll like it, trust me", I just politely feign interest, & then generally nod off.  

Not being rude like, but the fact that grown ups enjoy stuff like Bond films astonishes me.  I guess that cuts both ways though, folks think I'm odd because I don't like films.

Each to their own, eh?

Whilst i like films I prefer tv series more. Tend to only watch 'new' films on flights to and from Vegas. Don't do cinema, except for the odd kids film with the little un.

If you not seen it, watch Layer Cake, has Daniel Craig in it pre Bond

[sonour]

I don't like films either Tikay. Pete and all my friends know I don't like films but they still keep asking me to watch them. I try so hard not to be rude but I don't have time to do things I really want to do so it just seems crazy to me that I should spend time doing something I would really hate.

Pete and our mate Ken where going to see the latest Bond film and asked me if I'd like to go. I politely declined but offered to cook dinner for us all for when they returned.
When they got back they spent the next few hours telling me every scene from the film and from the latest episode of Fargo and from is it the Lost Kingdom.

Whilst listening to all this another friend rang me up and said ' I know you don't  listen to bad beat stories but I must just tell you this one '

Sometimes I feel like screaming.

[tikay]

I don't like films either Tikay. Pete and all my friends know I don't like films but they still keep asking me to watch them. I try so hard not to be rude but I don't have time to do things I really want to do so it just seems crazy to me that I should spend time doing something I would really hate.

Pete and our mate Ken where going to see the latest Bond film and asked me if I'd like to go. I politely declined but offered to cook dinner for us all for when they returned.
When they got back they spent the next few hours telling me every scene from the film and from the latest episode of Fargo and from is it the Lost Kingdom.

Whilst listening to all this another friend rang me up and said ' I know you don't  listen to bad beat stories but I must just tell you this one '

Sometimes I feel like screaming.

Ha, post of the week, I can exactly recognize all that.

When I'm at a UKPC, I recognize the signs that someone is about to tell me a bad beat tale, & I've developed a number of ways to combat it, or steer them in a different direction. None of them work, they are determined to tell their sorry tale.

It's a complete & total lack of self-awareness. I mean, show me someone who enjoys being told a bad beat tale? It's tournament poker, all bar one of the entrants will fail to win.

You'll never guess how I went out

I mean, what's the retort to that? Whatever line I take, the tale still follows.

I stand there, eyes glazing over, & eventually the torture ends. Then they go tell someone else. 

[Rexas]

I don't like films either Tikay. Pete and all my friends know I don't like films but they still keep asking me to watch them. I try so hard not to be rude but I don't have time to do things I really want to do so it just seems crazy to me that I should spend time doing something I would really hate.

Pete and our mate Ken where going to see the latest Bond film and asked me if I'd like to go. I politely declined but offered to cook dinner for us all for when they returned.
When they got back they spent the next few hours telling me every scene from the film and from the latest episode of Fargo and from is it the Lost Kingdom.

Whilst listening to all this another friend rang me up and said ' I know you don't  listen to bad beat stories but I must just tell you this one '

Sometimes I feel like screaming.

Ha, post of the week, I can exactly recognize all that.

When I'm at a UKPC, I recognize the signs that someone is about to tell me a bad beat tale, & I've developed a number of ways to combat it, or steer them in a different direction. None of them work, they are determined to tell their sorry tale.

It's a complete & total lack of self-awareness. I mean, show me someone who enjoys being told a bad beat tale? It's tournament poker, all bar one of the entrants will fail to win.

You'll never guess how I went out

I mean, what's the retort to that? Whatever line I take, the tale still follows.

I stand there, eyes glazing over, & eventually the torture ends. Then they go tell someone else. 

I generally go with the class "I don't care" :p The joy of not being on tv I guess, I don't have to be nice